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September 2, 2014, 5:35 AM

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Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code:

Apple Says It Is “Actively Investigating” Celeb Photo Hack — Apple said Monday it was “actively investigating” the violation of several of its iCloud accounts, in which revealing photos and videos of prominent Hollywood actresses were taken and posted all over the Web.

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

Naked celebrity hack: security experts focus on iCloud backup theory — After intensive examination of file data leaked by one or more hackers, suspicion grows that iCloud backups were source of pictures - though precise method of attack still unclear — iCloud backups appear to be the source …

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Apple lists top 10 reasons apps are rejected, with missing information and bugs the two most common causes — Common App Rejections — Before you develop your app, it's important to become familiar with the technical, content, and design criteria that we use to review all apps.

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Klint Finley / Wired:

Tox, a secure, open-source P2P messaging system first conceived on 4chan, aspires to become a Skype alternative — Out in the Open: Hackers Build a Skype That's Not Controlled by Microsoft — The web forum 4chan is known mostly as a place to share juvenile and, to put it mildly, politically incorrect images.

NDTV Gadgets:

Google Sends Invites for September 15 India Event; Android One Launch Likely — Google has sent invitations for an event in India on September 15. While the invite itself says “More details closer to the date!”, it is expected that the much-awaited Android One smartphones will make their debut at the event.

More: SlashGear, The Verge, 9to5Google, Softpedia News, Phones Review, TechSpot, WMPoweruser, Electronista, Engadget, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Pocketnow, Ars Technica, Android Central and PhoneArena

David Meyer / Gigaom:

German court orders Uber to suspend services across the country — It's not the first ban Uber's faced in Germany, but it is the first country-wide ban and the stakes are much higher this time — up to €250,000 per infraction, plus possible jail time. — Uber is banned across Germany, at least for now.

More: Deutsche Welle, BBC, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Reuters, Reuters and The Local

Tweets: @ryanheatheu and @superglaze

Bertel King, Jr / Android Police:

Fan Funding for YouTube creators now available in US, Japan, Mexico, Australia; Google to take 5% + $0.21 cut in the US — YouTube Now Offers Fan Funding In Four Countries - Here's A Look At How It Works — YouTube thrives off the videos produced by independent content creators all over the world …

More: ZDNet, Gizmodo, The Next Web, memeburn and Ubergizmo

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Is Quietly Retiring Network Visualization Tool InMaps — A little autumn cleaning underway at LinkedIn. The company is quietly retiring InMaps, a tool that let you map out how your LinkedIn network looks. A notice on the InMaps homepage notes that today, September 1 …

More: Softpedia News and Electronista. Tweets: @zalzally

Reuters:

China gives Microsoft 20 days to provide explanation in anti-trust probe — (Reuters) - A Chinese anti-trust regulator said on Monday it has given Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) 20 days to reply to queries on the compatability of its Windows operating system and Office software suite amid a probe into the world's largest software company.

Conor Dougherty / New York Times:

NASA working on automated traffic control system for drones, first commercial drones expected 2015 in agriculture — Drone Developers Consider Obstacles That Cannot Be Flown Around — SAN FRANCISCO — The tech industry's enthusiasm for building small delivery drones may be getting ahead of figuring out what to do with them.

More: The Economic Times, The Verge, Tech Times and SlashGear

AppleInsider:

Apple ‘not likely’ to ship redesigned power adapter, Lightning cable with ‘iPhone 6’ — Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo on Monday poured cold water on recent rumors that Apple was preparing to migrate to a reversible version of the Lightning charge cable as well as a larger, possibly …

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac, BGR, App Advice, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, AppleTell and Ubergizmo

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Xapo CEO explains their heavily guarded offline Bitcoin vaults & the future of cryptocurrency — Meet the man building the Fort Knox of bitcoin — Can security fit for a super villian's hideout help make bitcoin mainstream? — In July, a bitcoin startup named Xapo announced …

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